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Quotes About Causes

Although I insist that God has always had the power to intervene directly in nature to create new forms, I am willing to be per-suaded that He chose not to do so and instead employed secondary natural causes like random mutation and natural selection.
~ Phillip E. Johnson
I only take causes or write about things that I am passionate about, and I do it with a certain flair and a sort of wink and a nod.
~ Jason Calacanis
Al is, and always has been, the person who has been the candidate - the elected official. And he is the one who makes policy. As his wife, I have the wonderful opportunity to advocate for causes that I am passionate about, and I'm thankful for that.
~ Tipper Gore
And what I further don't understand is how little you appreciate the nature of your departure. Think of all the poor souls who go in violent accidents. These are the nonprecognition victim. We are not permitted to forewarn them. You, Mr. Bookman, fall into the category of natural causes.
~ Rod Serling
centroamericanos. Pero como el dichoso Estado de bienestar no llega, las causas que impulsan la migración siguen operando. La solución: reprimir y detener con la fuerza militar los flujos migratorios extranjeros. Éste fue el resultado de la consigna que proclama que la mejor política exterior es la interior. Y si la política interior es mala, tendremos la peor política exterior
~ Roger Bartra
El ejemplo de la lectura y la escritura es revelador de que allí hay un proceso de liberación: el mecanismo híbrido permite actos creativos que no están inscritos en una inexorable cadena de causas y efectos. La literatura, como otras expresiones artísticas, es una actividad liberadora.
~ Roger Bartra
WHAT IS A witch? The standard scholarly definition of one was summed up in 1978 by a leading expert in the anthropology of religion, Rodney Needham, as 'someone who causes harm to others by mystical means'.
~ Ronald Hutton
La razón posee una naturaleza pulcra y hacendosa y siempre se esfuerza por llenar de causas y efectos todos los misterios con los que se topa, al contrario de la imaginación (la loca de la casa, como la llamaba Santa Teresa de Jesús), que es pura desmesura y deslumbrante caos.
~ Rosa Montero
Niciodat? sau aproape niciodat? cei neînsemnaÅ£i nu se întreab? care sunt cauzele tuturor relelor ce le îndur?. Se ur?sc doar unii pe alÅ£ii, ÅŸi asta-i de ajuns.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
For the most part, mental illness is caused by an absence of or defect in the love that a particular child required from its particular parents for successful maturation and spiritual growth. It
~ M. Scott Peck
For any single thing of importance, there are multiple reasons.
~ M. Scott Peck
There are no causes of poverty. It is the rest state, that which happens when you don't do anything. If you want to experience poverty, just do nothing, and it will come…. We should ask what are the causes of wealth and try to recreate and reproduce them.
~ Madsen Pirie
Education lays the foundation of a large portion of the causes of mental disorder
~ Malcolm Gladwell
All of us, when it comes to personality, naturally think in terms of absolutes: that a person is a certain way or is not a certain way. But what Zimbardo and Hartshorne and May are suggesting is that this is a mistake, that when we think only in terms of inherent traits and forget the role of situations, we're deceiving ourselves about the real causes of human behavior.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
If you meet a number of failures the causes of which are not known, look for something that is common for each failure and that is never present when there is a success.
~ Jon Stuart Mill
One can traverse the Eastern paths simply by becoming interested in the nature of one's own mind—especially in the immediate causes of psychological suffering—and by paying closer attention to one's experience in every present moment. There is, in truth, nothing one need believe.
~ Sam Harris
The urge for retribution, therefore, seems to depend upon our not seeing the underlying causes of human behavior. Despite
~ Sam Harris
ADVENTINE  (ADVE'NTINE)   adj.[from advenio, adventum.]Adventitious; that which is extrinsically added; that which comes from outward causes: a word scarcely in use. As for the peregrine heat, it is thus far true, that, if the proportion of the adventine heat be greatly predominant to the natural heat and spirits of the body, it tendeth to dissolution or notable alteration.Bacon'sNatural History,No 836.
~ Samuel Johnson
Oh, death from what we do not want is the most common of all the causes.
~ Saul Bellow
I am much occupied with the investigation of physical causes. My aim in this is to show that the celestial machine is not similar to a divine animated being, but similar to a clock.
~ Johannes Kepler
So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science, the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things.
~ Johannes Kepler
Humankind's strongest social bonds and actions, including the capacities for cooperation and forgiveness, and for killing and allowing oneself to be killed, are born of commitment to causes and courses of action that are "ineffable"—that is, fundamentally immune to logical assessment for consistency and to empirical evaluation for costs and consequences.
~ John Brockman
Thus Paul denies that the causes of our election can be sought anywhere except in the hidden good pleasure of God. This
~ John Calvin
A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.
~ Ada Leverson